Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on October 06, 2014, 07:49:22 PM
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I sometime wonder whether this man has any political common sense or operates with an empty head filled up with his ego?
1. If Kabogo is at war with his senator, the better for CORD. So stay away and wait for Kabogo to come over to seek "help" from CORD;
2. You do not appear with his opponent in public and grant both "deniability". Kabogo can choose to claim it is really CORD behind his troubles and Wamatangi can in future blame CORD to get in the good books of TNA again!
3. Ranguma is a CORD governor. There is no context in which the Secretary General of a CORD affiliate party can pillory a loyal CORD governor in public!
4. Just for the record Nyong'o convened a Development Council or whatever creature Jubilee came up with even though the CORD position was against that.
Kiambu Senator Kimani Wamatangi and two MPs from the county Sunday asked Governor William Kabogo to heed Senate summons to avoid a freeze on county funds.
Mr Wamatangi, Kimani Ichungwa (Kikuyu), Alice Ng’ang’a (Thika) and county TNA chairman William Josiah separately said it was unacceptable that Kiambu risked being denied funds because of the stand taken by its governor.
Speaking in Limuru, the senator told Mr Kabogo, who together with Governor Isaac Ruto (Bomet) and Jackson Ranguma (Kisumu) are yet to heed the summons, that the move was not meant to show Senate authority or to humiliate them.
“We have not condemned the governors. All we want is for them to come like the other governors have done, so that these matters can be cleared up,” said Mr Wamatangi.
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Governors should not be reluctant to honour the summons if they are innocent, neither will their appearance before the Senate mean they are guilty, he said, adding that the Senate was merely playing its oversight role over the county governments.
TIE HIM UP
The summons came in the wake of a report by the Auditor-General, which raised questions about use of public funds allocated to some of the counties.
Speaking at a fundraiser in Kikuyu, Mr Ichungwa told the Senate, whose Leader of Majority Kindiki Kithure was present, to ensure the governors heeded the summons, even if it meant forcibly.
“If he (Kabogo) continues being defiant, just let us know and will we go to his office in Thika, tie him up and bring him to the Senate,” he said.
Ms Ng’ang’a said: “Lets put down our pride and work for our people. If we don’t, investors will move to others counties.”
Mr Josiah asked Mr Wamatangi and other county leaders to intervene and ensure that the county funds were not frozen because of Mr Kabogo’s failure to appear before the Senate.
Senators had asked the Controller of Budget, Ms Agnes Odhiambo, to stop counties headed by the three governors from accessing the funds.